borderland

Example Sentences

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Treasury Department said the people included one Congolese and one Rwandan senior officer, and four senior members of rebel armed groups that have been destabilising Congo's eastern borderlands for decades.

From Reuters

“The borderlands are already suffering death by a thousand cuts,” said Laiken Jordahl, an advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

From Reuters

Early on, its founders limited group membership solely to U.S. citizens, barring undocumented workers and Mexicans in the borderlands who sought to join.

From New York Times

How did you end up taking on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands?

From Los Angeles Times

Suffice it to say that, other than the borderland setting of "The Counselor," there's nary a Western trope to be seen.

From Salon